vortices's Usage Examples:

quantized vortices in superfluid helium.

167), using Froude's turbine to obtain the highly resisting spiral vortices, and arranging passages in the casing for the entry of water at the hub of the wheel and its exit at the circumference.

They too were once vortices, swallowed up by some other, which at a later day fell a victim to the sweep of our sun.

But detailed studies of the circulation of the water in any small area show deviations from the calculated results that are to be expected: thus Nansen's investigation of the Norwegian sea shows that the main directions of streaming of the water are broken up by numerous large and small vortices.

Such in mere outline is the celebrated theory of vortices, which for about twenty years after its promulgation reigned supreme in science, and for much longer time opposed a tenacious resistance to rival doctrines.

Such a reduced and impoverished star is a planet; and the several planets of our solar system are the several vortices which from time to time have been swept up by the central sun-vortex.

Other whirlwinds The third grouping, other whirlwinds, includes those such as trailing vortices.

Whilst Protestant opponents put him in the list of atheists like Vanini, and the Catholics held him as dangerous as Luther or Calvin, there were zealous adherents who ventured to prove the theory of vortices in harmony with the book of Genesis.

For example, a pair of equal opposite vortices, moving on a line parallel to a plane boundary, will have a corresponding pair of images, forming a rectangle of vortices, and the path of a vortex will be the Cotes' spiral r sin 20 2a, or x-2+y-2a-2; (io) this is therefore the path of a single vortex in a right-angled corner; and generally.

If other vortices are present, any one may be supposed to move with the velocity due to the others, the resultant stream function being gy m log r log IIrm; (9) the path of a vortex is obtained by equating the value of 1P at the vortex to a constant, omitting the rm of the vortex itself.

Studies of vortices in other superconductors indicate that they can form a sort of " lattice " configuration.

other whirlwinds The third grouping, other whirlwinds, includes those such as trailing vortices.

Synonyms:

whirlpool, maelstrom, stream, current, Charybdis,

Antonyms:

stand still, motionlessness, noncurrent, old, nonmodern,